My lady scandalous : the amazing life and outrageous times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, royal courtesan

This richly raucous history traverses the notoriously licentious British Regency era in the company of its most celebrated courtesan. Following a simple Edinburgh girlhood, Grace Dalrymple came of age in the sin city of London. As an impressionable bride of seventeen who married a man more than twice her age, Grace's remarkable beauty soon attracted the attentions of other men, and a disastrous liaison provoked her philandering husband to pursue a divorce. She became mistress of the most infamous peer in England, Lord Cholmondeley, who commissioned her Gainsborough portrait the same year she gave birth to a daughter (who may have been the child of the Prince of Wales). She was soon to find a new protector in France's richest man, Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, but this turned perilous when Orleans fell to the guillotine, just as Grace narrowly escaped with her life. --From publisher description.再读一些...

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A biography that reveals the intrigues and amours of the licentious Regency era, as seen through the eyes of one of Europe's most celebrated courtesans.再读一些...

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"What a delight! Jo Manning's "My Lady Scandalous" brings to life the scandals and excesses of the late Georgian period through the life of a strong, unconventional woman who was not only the mistress of royalty, but who barely survived the Reign of Terror. A feast for lovers of social history, "My Lady Scandalous" entertains as well as educates."-- Mary Jo Putney, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Stolen Magic" and "A Kiss of Fate"再读一些...